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Message-ID: <ZXDGUskp1s4Bwbtr@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Dec 2023 19:06:58 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, ankita@...dia.com,
        Shameerali Kolothum Thodi 
        <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>, oliver.upton@...ux.dev,
        suzuki.poulose@....com, yuzenghui@...wei.com, will@...nel.org,
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        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] KVM: arm64: allow the VM to select DEVICE_* and
 NORMAL_NC for IO memory

On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 03:03:56PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 06:58:44PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > -------------8<----------------------------
> > diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> > index 1929103ee59a..b89d2dfcd534 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> > @@ -1863,7 +1863,7 @@ int vfio_pci_core_mmap(struct vfio_device *core_vdev, struct vm_area_struct *vma
> >  	 * See remap_pfn_range(), called from vfio_pci_fault() but we can't
> >  	 * change vm_flags within the fault handler.  Set them now.
> >  	 */
> > -	vm_flags_set(vma, VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP);
> > +	vm_flags_set(vma, VM_VFIO | VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP);
> >  	vma->vm_ops = &vfio_pci_mmap_ops;
> > 
> >  	return 0;
> > diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> > index 418d26608ece..6df46fd7836a 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> > @@ -391,6 +391,13 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
> >  # define VM_UFFD_MINOR		VM_NONE
> >  #endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR */
> > 
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> > +#define VM_VFIO_BIT		39
> > +#define VM_VFIO			BIT(VM_VFIO_BIT)
> > +#else
> > +#define VM_VFIO			VM_NONE
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  /* Bits set in the VMA until the stack is in its final location */
> >  #define VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP (VM_RAND_READ | VM_SEQ_READ | VM_STACK_EARLY)
> > -------------8<----------------------------
> > 
> > In KVM, Akita's patch would take this into account, not just rely on
> > "device==true".
> 
> Yes, Ankit let's try this please. I would not call it VM_VFIO though
> 
> VM_VFIO_ALLOW_WC ?

Yeah. I don't really care about the name.

-- 
Catalin